“The enticing scents and dishes of a Diné family meal are always accompanied by children running around and playing nearby, dogs who have that hungry look, and quiet teenagers who lounge about and sometimes help cook and serve. And the large get-togethers are replete with stories, laughter, and sometimes, nostalgic tears. Our family gatherings...Read More
Monday, October 1, Poetry Reading, Texas Christian University, Dallas, Texas. TBA. Tuesday, October 2, Panel Discussion with “Supaman,” Texas Christian University, Dallas, Texas. TBARead More
“AT MOST POETRY READINGS, the audience maintains a solemn silence between poems, digesting the writer’s words. But when Luci Tapahonso read her work at the Radcliffe Institute this past spring, the crowd enthusiastically clapped after each poem. To introduce the poet, Kristiana Kahakauwila—the 2015–2016 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and an assistant professor...Read More
"Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso read her poems to a large audience on Thursday at the Farmington Public Library as part of the library's National Poetry Month celebration. "I appreciate the way people take ownership of poetry. It means that they feel their voices are heard. Their experiences are being told," she said to the crowded room. Tapahonso,...Read More
“At the beginning of Navajo time, the Holy People (Diyin Dine’é) journeyed through three worlds before settling in Dinétah, our current homeland. Here they took form as clouds, sun, moon, trees, bodies of water, rain and other physical aspects of this world. That way, they said, we would never be alone. Today, in the fourth...Read More
